This blog is affiliated with a course at the School of Journalism & Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I'll try to use it to share relevant news and information with the class, and anyone else who's interested.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Broadband in the US - Coming, slowly

A new study from the Columbia Institute on Tele-Information updates 2009's FCC report. The study looks at both current levels of broadband deployment, and the plans and goals of broadband providers. Among the key findings:

AT&T and Verizon indicated they hope to bring high-speed wireline broadband (10Mbs or higher) to a combined 50 million US homes within two years.

Verizon plans to offer LTE wireless service (download speeds of 5-12 Mbs) to all of its coverage areas by 2014

In 2010, an estimated 70% of US homes had some form of wireline broadband (39% cable, 31% telco)

AT&T's U-Verse and Verizon's FiOS (combined multichannel video, broadband data, and telephone) each are available to about 35% of US homes, with another 5% to be covered by each under current deployment plans